Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 14:24     Subject: The Man Cold
Anonymous wrote:My husband has a cold. No fever. No body aches. Just a run of the mill cold. Yet he's been laid up in bed for two days as if he’s dying from the plague. Two days! Why? Why do men do this? It’s the weirdest phenomenon. There’s no way my family would even tolerate me out of commission for two straight days. The last time I had the flu five years ago, I took care of the younger one who had the flu—at the same time as me.


I'd fake a cold to get away from a wife like OP too. Buy some sympathy while you are the store.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 14:23     Subject: The Man Cold
I am sincerely grateful to be married to my husband, warts and all, when I see things like this on DCUM. I don't doubt they're generalizations based in truth, but it's not my experience!
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 14:17     Subject: The Man Cold
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well... Not all men. I prefer to stay active with a cold. Laying in bed for multiple days is a good way to develop a pneumonia. I might need to take breaks, but I keep moving.


It takes a special kind of man to use this phrase


What do you mean by that?
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 12:52     Subject: The Man Cold
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Don’t get me started on this. My husband acted like he was dying of the plague, meanwhile, I had a bad UTI the weekend of our move and not only coordinated the entire thing but assembled multiple items of furniture.


Who forced you to do that?


No one.